‘Rayalaseema districts have sufficient oxygen supplies’
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The oxygen provide in Rayalaseema districts is sufficient and the infrastructure arrange throughout the peak of the pandemic final yr has put the area in a cushty place, Nodal Officer for oxygen and Assistant Director of Drug Control Authority Pullagarula Ramesh Reddy instructed The Puucho.
“Anantapur district had a maximum per-day requirement of 23 tonnes of oxygen in all forms–either in bulk cylinders or for refilling large storage tanks installed at the GGH, Super Speciality Hospital, Cancer Hospital and Hindupur, Guntakal and Kadiri government hospitals–during the peak of the pandemic in September 2020 with 3,300 hospital beds occupied,” he identified.
The Central authorities had allotted 4,500 new oxygen cylinders to the State final yr with Anantapur district getting 300 out of them. The district now has 1,000 cylinders (7.1 cubic meters every) along with the 13 kl liquid oxygen tank put in on the GGH premises, one other 10 kl tank within the new super-speciality block and a 6 kl tank on the Cancer Care Centre within the adjoining compound.
In the non-public sector, RDT Bathalapalli has a liquid oxygen storage tank of 5 kl and the KIMS Saveera has an air separation unit for oxygen manufacturing.
To increase the provision of oxygen-supporting beds in Andhra Pradesh, the Centre has allotted 20 MT of oxygen from JSW Steel Plant at Ballari, 28 MT from Linde Gas at Ballari, 10 MT from the Air Water, and one other 10 MT from Barukha in Bengaluru. While the primary two vegetation provide liquid oxygen by tankers to Anantapur, Kurnool and Kadapa, the Air Water and Barukha are supplying to hospitals in Tirupati and Chittoor.
Four liquid oxygen tanker carriers of the contracted company, Varasi Oxygen, are supplying to Anantapur hospitals, whereas Apex Oxygen with 20 kl capability and Kumar Oxygen with 34 KL capability oxygen refilling items in Anantapur is catering to the wants of different non-public hospitals. The Yerraguntla-based company Varasi Oxygen provides liquid oxygen to Kadapa additionally. The RS Gas with a bulk oxygen cylinder filling sunit at Kurnool caters to the wants of the district.
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